Höganäs Chocolate & Friends
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Nordic Craft Chocolate Festival är en chokladfestival i festivalen. Under Skåne Food Fest 2025 samlas några av de bästa Bean to Bar chokladmakarna från Norden och Europa. Det är ett unikt tillfälle att träffa passionerade chokladhantverkare, lära dig mer om smakerna och processerna, och givetvis smaka, köpa och njuta av alla möjliga sorters choklad! Chokladprovningar kommer att ske under hela festivalen, och du behöver inte förboka – det är bara att komma!
NÄR? 29 & 30 augusti 2025
VAR? Krapperups Slott – Köksträdgården
Möt chokladmakarna
Bean to Bar
Alla deltagare är Bean to Bar chokladproducenter, vilket betyder att tillverkningen börjar med bönan och slutar med choklad. Hantverkarna har kontroll och insyn i hela produktionsledet, äger sina egna fabriker, och har en nära relation till bönderna som odlar bönorna.
Chokladprovningar
Kommer att ske under hela festivalen. Du behöver inte förboka, det är bara att komma!
Höganäs Chocolate
Höganäs Chocolate är värd för Nordic Craft Chocolate Festival 2025, och det är deras förtjänst att vi har nöjet att ha en chokladfestival i festivalen under Skåne Food Fest 2025.
Höganäs Chocolate är en tree to bar chokladtillverkare, vilket innebär att hantverket börjar i deras kakaoodlingar i Ecuador, och slutar med färdig choklad i fabriken i Höganäs. Familjeföretaget har fem generationer kakaoodlare bakom sig, och kärleken till Kullahalvön gjorde att Ana och Gustavo valde att etablera sin verksamhet i Höganäs.
Hur blev det såhär?
Hur hamnade en internationell chokladfestival på en skånsk mat- och dryckesfestival? Ana och Gustavo deltog med Höganäs Chocolate på Skåne Food Fest 2024. Strax därefter fick vi frågan om Skåne Food Fest kunde bli platsen för Nordic Craft Chocolate 2025. Varje år agerar en Nordisk deltagare värd i sitt land, och i år är det Höganäs Chocolates tur i Sverige. Vi delar starka värderingar om vikten av medvetenhet, värdighet och hållbarhet genom hela productionsprocessen, vår kärlek till hantverksnördighet matchar varandra, och vi kunde helt enkelt inte säga nej.
About the Chocolate Makers
Höganäs Chocolate (Sweden)
Welcome to a wonderful world of chocolate that stretches from the deep forests and lush plantations of Los Rios to the blooming fields of Höganäs. Two communities have intertwined, united by the love of chocolate. Both places inspire us to create top-class chocolate.
Our Ecuadorian cocoa beans have been harvested by our families for generations. Now the beans are shipped to Sweden, like a love letter across the Atlantic, where they are turned into delicious chocolate.
Enjoy the good things in life with our exciting selection of sustainable products – perfect when looking for Swedish chocolate makers. Our customers around the world share a passion for high quality chocolate.
Our goal is to empower everyone in the industry to change it for the better and together create a brighter future. Just as family members in previous generations have done for over 100 years, we strive to maintain efficient and safe production.
Fair labor conditions ensure that both people and cocoa trees can thrive, from seed to bean and finally a delicious chocolate bar. The unique fermentation process brings the flavors of cocoa to life. It tastes good and does good.
instagram.com/hoganaschocolate
Cauma Cacao (Spain)
Trufas Martinez, chocolate maker since 1931 in Valencia, is a reference in the world of chocolate in Spain.
They continue to produce their own traditional chocolate recipes, pralines, bonbons, their famous truffles — hence the name — and their well-known cubanitos.
On their 90th anniversary in 2021, Teresa Ricart Martínez, third generation of Trufas Martinez, together with her children, created the brand Caūma Cacao, dedicated exclusively to chocolate making under the ”Bean to Bar” philosophy and process. Their goal is to produce chocolate with Fine Flavour Cacao from different origins, free from allergens, thanks to the construction of a bubble-style workshop that avoids cross-contamination from lactose, nuts, gluten, etc.
Cioccolato del Monviso (Italy)
We are artisans in a modern age, and we love specialty chocolate more than anything else — it has become our everyday choice.
Cioccolato del Monviso is a deliberate choice in the production of artisanal chocolate, starting with the selection of the finest cocoa from around the world and transforming it into excellent chocolate, crafted at the foot of the “Stone King” (Monviso mountain) in our own workshop using grinders made from the very stone of Monviso.
We process it slowly, with respect and care.
This working method follows the “from bean to bar” (B2B) philosophy — from cocoa beans to chocolate bars.
The definitive chocolate maker is Riccardo Depetris of Pasticceria del Viale / Depetris i Ciculaté of Revello, a family business in the world of pastry since 1976.
instagram.com/depetris_riccardo
Fjorden sjokolade (Norway)
Fjorden sjokolade is a small bean to bar chocolate maker based near the historic Hafrsfjord in Stavanger, Norway. We want to change peoples chocolate habits by making chocolate from world class organic cacao beans that will give you a new look at chocolate flavour. We want to bring forward the natural flavour variety that exists in the cacao fruit and appreciate the hard work the cacao farmers are doing to give us this amazing raw material that the cacaobeans are. A world of natural cacao flavors awaits you when tasting our chocolates!
www.fjordensjokolade.no
Instagram: @fjordensjokolade
Facebook: @fjordensjokolade
Friis-Holm Chocolate (Denmark)
Friis-Holm Chocolate is founded by Mikkel Friis-Holm, a Danish chef, who founded the company from a desire to become one of the top 3 chocolate makers in the world with his mission; best in the world, best for the world.
How it started
Mikkel worked in San Francisco in the late 90s. Here, he met the the newly started Scharffenberger Chocolate, and Mikkel’s interest in chocolate began to grow.
Through his collaboration with Scharffenberger chocolate, Mikkel got in contact with a major cacao project in Nicaragua in 2007. Danida, a Danish government sponsored development organization, supported the idea that farmers should grow high-quality cacao in order to improve the farmers’ income.
Mikkel started a close cooperation with the local farmers involved in the Danida project, and even today the cacao beans from the Nicaraguan farmers are a core part of our business.
A chocolate factory in Denmark
The first years, from 2007 to 2013, were spent building knowledge and learning the craft. The chocolate was produced in collaboration with an old French chocolate factory in Rhone – Bonnat Chocolatier. But Mikkel wanted to make the whole product himself. From cacao bean to finished chocolate – from bean to bar.
In 2014 Friis-Holm Chocolate A/S was founded with the help of small investors and the Danish Structural Bank “Vækstfonden”. The first Danish produced chocolate ran through the machines in 2015, and since then everything has been made at the factory right here in Denmark.
In 2023, the family behind Hansen Is (Hansen Ice cream) entered into ownership with Mikkel. And still today all our work is based on Mikkel’s motto: Best in the world, best for the world.
www.friisholmchokolade.dk
Facebook: @Friisholm.Chokolade
Instagram: @friisholmchokolade
Kaitxo (Spain)
Kaitxo is an award-winning Spanish bean-to-bar chocolate maker and coffee producer from Balmaseda, Basque Country, Spain, founded in 2017 by a family with a passion for gastronomy and high-quality cacao and coffee. They source fine cacao beans from around the world, which are then roasted and transformed into single-origin, artisanal chocolates that highlight the natural flavors of the cacao.
Maychoco (Spain)
Maychoco was born first in the mind of Mayte Sánchez. In 2019 she managed to make her dream come true with the opening of a bakery in Benajarafe (Malaga) where it starts with cocoa beans from the best plantations in the world. With her own hands, in a totally artisan way, she roasts those beans and makes the whole process until tempering those seeds to turn them into a fine chocolate of aroma of the best quality that revolutionizes the palate of everyone who tastes it.
Chocolate Maker: Mayte Sánchez
Instagram.com/chocolatesmaychoco
facebook.com/CHOCOLATESMAYCHOCO
NearyNógs Chocolate Makers (Ireland)
NearyNógs Stoneground Chocolate are Northern Ireland’s first bean to bar, craft chocolate makers.
We ethically source single origin, speciality Cacao Beans from farms in Central America, South America, the Caribbean islands & West Africa.
We then hand sort every cacao bean, gently roast, stone grind, age and then temper into beautiful chocolate bars.
We aim to showcase the amazing origin flavours and tasting notes in every cacao bean origin. We do this without additives, emulsifiers or artificial flavouring.
We aim to use packaging that is made from recycled sources and is either recyclable and/or compostable after use. This is not always possible but will become easier as we grow as our business can buy better packaging the more chocolate we sell. Our postal boxes and paper tape are also made from recycled materials!
Nestled between the Mourne Mountains and the Irish sea along the scenic Mourne Coast, you can find us making chocolate in our small batch factory. We built this as a family with friends and neighbours and always with you in mind. It’s a place for chocolate making, people gathering and story telling.
instagram.com/nearynogschocolate
facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556669885945
Nittedal Sjokoladefabrikk (Norway)
Nittedal Sjokoladefabrikk as, a small chocolate maker in Nittedal, just outside the city of Oslo. We produce single origin, milk-, and white
chocolate, both pure and flavoured. We have our own line of bonbons, and in summer we add ice cream to our menu.
Chocolate Maker: Bjarne Nielsen
www.nittedalsjokoladefabrikk.no
instagram.com/nittedal_sjokoladefabrikk
facebook.com/nittedalsjokoladefabrikk
Orígenes Ecuador (France)
María Isabel Maingón is a certified taster by the International Institute of Chocolate Tasting (IICCT) and a Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Maker, dedicated to promoting high-quality Ecuadorian cacao and chocolate. She leads @origen.ecuador, an initiative that fosters sustainable economic development by supporting ethical brands and working directly with farmers, fermentation centers, and factories. Her mission is to represent and expand brands that value quality and social responsibility, contributing to the well-being of producers and to the global recognition of Ecuadorian cacao. Proud of her Ecuadorian roots, María Isabel works tirelessly to share the richness and tradition of her country’s cacao, renowned worldwide for its exquisite aromatic profile.
Chocolate maker: María Isabel Maingón
